Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like to mix spirituals with dance tunes," said the Duke. He was pretty firm about this. While he said that the spirituals had an African rhythm with an American touch, he refused to associate them with modern "swing," about which he was rather disdainful. Because, according to the Duke, swing is a very simple thing that can be developed if the composer is capable enough. But most of them aren...
Without Colonel Johnson, the opening parade up Broadway was led last week by the new impresarios: his rangy, longtime arena director, Everett Colburn, and boyish Harry Knight, a onetime bronco-rider and son-in-law of Cowboy Tom Mix. A third, also in the parade, was an Arizona cattleman named Mark Clemens, who had put up the cash to buy Promoter Johnson's string of broncos, steers and wild cows, and to send "Gorilla" Mike Hastings scouring the West for more. Scout Hastings was visibly pleased last week with one of his most celebrated finds, a bucking horse named...
There followed an excellent banquet with a surprising variety of food. When the banquet was over, General Semenov announced that every man in the room was to prick his ear and mix a drop of blood with that of the Russian or American sitting beside him. He explained that this was a traditional Rus-sian custom among friends and that it made them blood brothers. After this ceremony the General made a flowery talk proclaiming his friendship for the U. S. and the American people, and urging us as representatives of American finance to tell the U. S. Govern-ment...
...Russians are plenty good as airmen, but they don't speak any language, apparently, except their own and never mix with pilots of other nationalities. They are grim and secretive rather than congenial...
...Bull Moore was above any kind of mix-up that concerned a girl, his dare-deviltry sometimes brought him to the edge of other kinds of trouble. In 1927, a grocer accused of selling liquor complained that a young bully posing as a policeman had walked in and taken $50, promising to have the accusation quashed. Bull Moore was tried for this offense. He got a six-month sentence which the judge suspended...